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Genus: Echemus Simon, 1878 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Echemus levyi Kovblyuk & Seyyar, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042877

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Described:

Distribution: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Arachnological Museum of the Niğde University (NUAM), Niğde, Turkey m (11) - (Kovblyuk et al., 2009)

Taxonomic References

Echemus levyi Kovblyuk & Seyyar in Kovblyuk et al., 2009: 177, f. 29-33, 37, 39-41 (Dm) Original description

Echemus levyi Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019: 440, f. 15-16, 19-20 (Df)

Echemus levyi Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023: 23, f. 10A-G (mf)

Echemus levyi Seropian et al., 2025b: 71, f. 18-19 (f)

References

Bosmans, R. & Gavalas, I. (2023). The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11(Supplementum 1): 1-91. -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M. & Van Keer, J. (2019). Ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae) from the Greek islands Rodos, Symi and Karpathos, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4646(3): 434-460. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.2 -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M., Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Topçu, A. (2009). New taxonomic and faunistic data on the gnaphosid spiders of Turkey (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 169-187. -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Ninua, L., Rostiashvili, I., Bulbulashvili, N. & Makharadze, G. (2025b). New data on spiders (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Araneae) of Georgia with description of a new species from Tegenaria lyncea group. Caucasiana 4: 65-80. doi: 10.3897/caucasiana.4.e162490 [[incl. Corrigendum. Caucasiana 4: 95-96. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.4.e171922]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-09-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Seropian et al., 2025b
2025-09-14	Species distribution update	Seropian et al., 2025b	Old value
2023-11-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023
2023-11-22	Species distribution update	Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023	Old value
2019-07-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019
2019-07-25	First description of female	Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019	Old value
2019-07-25	Species distribution update	Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019	Old value